ValiDate - an upcoming (and unsurprisingly racist) visual novel made by SJW's, for SJW's. Currently MIA.

I've never understood why twitter/tumblr artists are obsessed with making "mixed" characters that just look black. I don't see a point in saying "this character is part this and part that" if you're not going to reflect it in their design at all, especially when they tend to get so pissy if anyone mistakes their character's ethnicity. I always suspected it was just a black fetish mixed with trying to cram as many woke points into one character as possible, but I don't know.
 
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JuliusCaesar said:
I've never understood why twitter/tumblr artists are obsessed with making "mixed" characters that just look black. I don't see a point in saying "this character is part this and part that" if you're not going to reflect it in their design at all, especially when they tend to get so pissy if anyone mistakes their character's ethnicity. I always suspected it was just a black fetish mixed with trying to cram as many woke points into one character as possible, but I don't know.
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It's definitely a fetish. Woke people fetishize any form of minority like they were competing in the oppression Olympics. Gold medal goes to whoever is the most oppressed.
 
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JuliusCaesar said:
I've never understood why twitter/tumblr artists are obsessed with making "mixed" characters that just look black. I don't see a point in saying "this character is part this and part that" if you're not going to reflect it in their design at all, especially when they tend to get so pissy if anyone mistakes their character's ethnicity. I always suspected it was just a black fetish mixed with trying to cram as many woke points into one character as possible, but I don't know.
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Can't be labeled against BLM, and you're educating the world on racial diversity.

Ironically, what the devs are doing counts as blackfacing.
 
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JuliusCaesar said:
I've never understood why twitter/tumblr artists are obsessed with making "mixed" characters that just look black. I don't see a point in saying "this character is part this and part that" if you're not going to reflect it in their design at all, especially when they tend to get so pissy if anyone mistakes their character's ethnicity. I always suspected it was just a black fetish mixed with trying to cram as many woke points into one character as possible, but I don't know.
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Colorism is also a big issue in the black community. I think this is fueling the designs to an extent. But you can't represent dark skin by erasing light skin. Someone on this team is likely a bitter dark girl looked over for a lighter sister with good hair.

Maybe someone fetishizes being part Asian or French or whatever but still being that dark skin girl because dark skin girl represent.
 
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Apparently, they're celebrating BiWeek.
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Ramen Timer said:
Suprised the white male was a connoisseur of both genitals.

I thought they'd make him the straight white male they despise so much.

Also, how many of these weeks and holidays are there? There's already Pride Month for fucks sake. Isn't that enough anymore?
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By 2030, every day of the year will be dedicated to celebrating gays, trannies, blacks, jews, thots, fat people, and every combination. Work days will be relegated to white men who aren't allowed to participate in those holidays.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Colorism is also a big issue in the black community. I think this is fueling the designs to an extent. But you can't represent dark skin by erasing light skin. Someone on this team is likely a bitter dark girl looked over for a lighter sister with good hair.

Maybe someone fetishizes being part Asian or French or whatever but still being that dark skin girl because dark skin girl represent.
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That's a really good point too. It almost feels like having every design choice be boiled down to either "fetish" or "spite" would do more harm than good for representation in media but I don't know. Whatever makes that sweet progressive game dough, I guess.
 
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JuliusCaesar said:
That's a really good point too. It almost feels like having every design choice be boiled down to either "fetish" or "spite" would do more harm than good for representation in media but I don't know. Whatever makes that sweet progressive game dough, I guess.
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They get mad about casting in live action movies all the time. Like with Zoe Kravitz, whose parents are both biracial and looks about how you'd expect for having a mom who is lighter than some white people. I think bitterness is a factor in a lot of this. It isn't a white problem. It's a problem with the black community. It's just easier to blame whitey.

Tumblr fostered a "POC can't be racist because they lack power and privilege" environment that encouraged a lot of this race fetishization. As if the trans fetishization wasn't bad enough.

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Suprised the white male was a connoisseur of both genitals.

I thought they'd make him the straight white male they despise so much.

Also, how many of these weeks and holidays are there? There's already Pride Month for fucks sake. Isn't that enough anymore?
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I am shocked. I was totally expecting the old "cishet white male who needs to be educated" trope. Oh well, now you can swirl with any set of reproductive organs you want.

Nope. We need a week for everything now. Otherwise feelings get hurt.

And no one has vitiligo? I am disappoint. :mad:
 
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Badonkadonk Trash said:
Suprised the white male was a connoisseur of both genitals.

I thought they'd make him the straight white male they despise so much.
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I thought he was gay. I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere earlier in the thread that he was.

Considering everyone gets paired with everyone, it seems fucking stupid to not have them all be bi, but everything has suggested they're fucking stupid so far, why change now, right?
 
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Badonkadonk Trash said:
Here's what Dani's gotta say about her interview.

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But the average black woman doesn't appear to be represented well. It's a cast of genderspecials and petri dish experiments in geneology. Where is Shawanda from around the way? The most average POC we get here is Malik. Who, by what we can tell so far is the best character whether that was intended or not.

I am probably going to end up giving this bitch my money just for the lulz alone. Only so she can create more like this so I can enjoy it ironically.

Dani is delusional. ValiDate is not going to be talked about for decades to come. It's not gonna break any molds. It is your run of the mill standard tumblresque VN. It just got lucky enough to get a lot of attention. Has Dani ever been to ichi.o? There are tons of woke VNs on there already. It's because VNs are easier to do than many other genres. Using Ren'py to make your genderqueer POC OCs come to life is nothing new, interesting or groundbreaking. Not unless the game really stands out. And I doubt ValiDate is going to shake the player to the core. Most western VN devs live on a diet of their own farts. And Dani is no exception.
 
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